Hopefully #SunsetSunday will become a thing on here and I thought I'd add one of my husband's photos as a contribution.
This is the west coast of the #IsleofWight photographed during one of the most extreme sunsets I've ever witnessed. Our son said it looked like a volcano had erupted in the sky!
I call this one and of Dreams...I've given the #landscape a quilted effect. I live close to the ocean and mountains so they're often in my #artwork - and now after, working on "quilt" artwork, I'm thinking maybe I should learn how to do the real thing.
Art is here - https://peggy-collins.pixels.com/featured/land-of-dreams-quilted-peggy-collins.html
#art #ocean #mountains #britishcolumbia #canada #color #AYearForArt #MastodonArt #FediGiftShop #MastoArt #FediArt #BuyIntoArt #peggycollins
The Middle Bay Lighthouse in #MobileAlabama more or less as it originally looked when built in 1885. It's still standing but the lantern was removed decades ago.
Prints on my site here: https://mark-tisdale.pixels.com/featured/mobile-alabama-middle-bay-lighthouse-mark-tisdale.html
#Alabama #lighthouse #DigitalArt #MobileAL #GulfOfMexico #coast #nautical #MastoArt #ArtMatters #CreativeToots #MarkOnArt
1. Take your thoughts & prayers and go fuck yourself.
2. If that offends you, pray for me to stop saying "take your thoughts & prayers and go fuck yourself".
3. Take your thoughts & prayers and go fuck yourself.
4. Ask yourself why your thoughts & prayers didn't make me stop saying "take your thoughts & prayers and go fuck yourself".
5. Repeat until you take your thoughts & prayers and go fuck yourself.
"But that influence was dark and malign. For the sake of contestable political issues, he abandoned necessary moral virtues, and he taught his followers to do the same."
I'd invite French to recognize that the Christian right does not need to be "taught" to abandon moral virture as it pursues raw power. This is encoded in the DNA of the Christian right.
Ask those of us they've targeted, like queer folks. We'll explain it to you.
9 May 1939 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Marcel Jacobs, was born in Enschede.
He was deported to Auschwitz in February 1943 with his mother Rika and his 7-year-old sister Marlene. They were all murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.
#Auschwitz #Birkenau #Holocaust #Shoah #Jews #history #histodons #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #ww2 #Memorial #Remember #memory #otd #facts
I've seen exactly 1 news report where the reporter traced back the data (and the migrants) to find that they were moving north to escape a drought in South America that had devastated their food sources and created violence in their region. They came because they didn't want their children to die.
Media literacy tip:
The surge of climate-change conflicts will be presented to us as "ethnic tensions lead to violence" in the newspapers.
The rise in climate refugees will be presented to us as "migrants seeking work."
When you try to read a new situation using the language of the old broken economic system it's hard to see what's happening.
BY THOR'S HAMMER!
It Is Time!
Before you lay your head to sleep tonight, please say a prayer or send a good thought to the heroes of Ukraine who are ready to lay down their lives in the coming counteroffensive against the Russian invaders.
Lest we forget, freedom isn't free; it is the selfless acts of everyday citizens who stand to defend their, and our freedoms, no matter the country.
EVIL SHALL NOT STAND when justice is at hand!
#UkraineοΈ #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO #Zelensky #war #news
I've never been more satisfied with my introverted, hermit life.
If it says "youth pastor", FBI agents are probably going to serve a no-knock warrant within the hour.
For me, it's snark, and sarcasm, and a deep-seated need to mock the tropes I was raised to believe by taking them to ridiculous extremes.
So... me. Work in aerospace, more space, not as much aero. Can fix my own car, choose not to. Can fix the random appliance of your choice. Hardcore introvert in person, which is why I love online. Lifelong science fiction fan. Read constantly. Scalzi is my favorite author, because he mixes exactly the right amount of snark into his writing. Together with a guy 30+ years, married since it was legal. Own a home in CA and don't plan to leave unless I immigrate to another country.